I always hit snooze on my alarm clock, but I jump right out of bed if I hear someone puking or gagging (e.g., kids or my dog).
A cat puke has me out of the bed in .03 seconds. Even in REM.
I fear the result would be slower reactions for the real event.
The sound has to rotate randomly.
That’s a great idea. Maybe make it so you can load up as many customizable sounds as you like, and they randomly shuffle each time.
We should compile a playlist.
- jackhammer
- air raid siren*
- trumpet reveille
- taiko drumming
- “eagle” (i.e. hawk) cry
- monkeys screeching
- Woody fuckin Woodpecker laugh
- applause
- theme from Rawhide
*maybe don’t use this one in tornado country. Don’t desensitize oneself to actual emergency warning tones.
- “eagle” (i.e. actual) cry
Because it would be funny.
You would immediately become desensitized to it.
Also, you could just set that. I have a custom ringer on mine.
I used to have a TV which had a setting that would turn it on and go to a specific channel at a set time. I would set it to go to the history channel every morning because they would play random stuff from their archives in the morning, so it was impossible to get fully desensitized. One day I’d wake up to the history of candy, the next day it’d be the history of stealth aircraft, the next day it’d be the history of the klan (that was not the best way to start the day).
This sounds like a feature music streaming services should introduce with the sync up to your phone’s alarm
The alarm app I use allows for playlists to be used as the alarm, and I have a different one set for every day of the week. It’s not quite as effective at preventing me from tuning it out, but that’s balanced out by the fact that I have to solve puzzles and math problems to turn it off. Combined with an alarm clock that has a light that slowly turns on in a simulated sunrise and it’s pretty effective.
I put my alarm as birds chirping for a while. The problem was that I couldn’t sleep in any longer on weekends, because the birds chirping outside would wake me up.
Record your child when they are young… There is some internal biological thing going on. My daughter could wake me up out of a slumber that a freight train running by my pillow would not.
I think even an infant crying would get most people, even if childless.
I hate that you’re right
Cat puking noises wake me up every fucking time so you’re onto something.
A baby crying
or
a young woman’s scream
less so would be
a grown man screaming in agony … (something along the lines of saying something like 'OH GOD, MY LEG, MY LEG, OH GOD, GOD NO, MY LEG!!!, OH GOD, HELP ME, MY LEG!!)
For a short while when I was having trouble waking up, I used a goat scream (the goat scream) for my alarm. It’s close enough to a woman’s scream and I gotta say, yes it woke me up, but god, do not do that to yourself.
I wish women’s screams still riled me. It’d sure make mornings a lot easier.
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My theory is that if we split people into two groups - those who hit snooze and those who don’t - and dropped them on a desert island to survive, one group would rebuild civilization while the other descended into chaos and perished.
“There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” — Douglas Adams
